![]() ![]() Their solution is called a passkey, and though this new sign-in method isn’t yet widespread, it is now rolling out-and it promises to make creating new accounts online and logging in to them securely a lot easier. But Apple, Google, and Microsoft are working together to support a new way for people to log in to accounts without using passwords at all. Thinking of new passwords and then keeping them organized and secure is a pain, even with a password manager. It is long, meets the complexity requirements, but isn't just a random jumble of characters, but also isn't a sentence or related words.Sign up for Wirecutter's newsletters to get independent reviews, expert advice, and the very best deals sent straight to your inbox. )With LastPass, and I assume the others, you can print off a one-time password list, so that if you forget your password, you can use the OTPs to get back into the account and set a new master password.My Password is somewhere over 20 characters long, but I use a scheme to create a password that I can easily remember. Each is stored separately, but with the same URL, LastPass then offers me a drop-down list when I visit the site and try to log on.I'd rather have an expert in password security than a huger advertising or data slurping company looking after my passwords. I have my business Office 365 account, private Outlook/Office 365 account, plus half a dozen other accounts for logging onto Microsoft websites. You can also store multiple passwords for one site – E.g. With premium, I can even use my NFC Yubikey as 2-factor on Android and per USB on my Windows and Linux PCs.1Password is also good, I've heard.Both can be installed on iPhone so you might be able to migrate the passwords over or copy/paste them? I've no idea, I haven't used an iPhone in donkey's years.In LastPass you can add a new password without visiting the site, although it will ask for the default URL (so that it can go to the site if you click on it and so that it recognises the domain when you visit the site to automatically suggest the correct password). But if I move to Android I will need another means of saving my passwords, hence my need for your valuable advice in this matter. All passwords are secure, require authentication to view them, sync seamlessly between (Apple) devices, and best of all, you can manually add new usernames/passwords without ever having to visit the website. How am I to remember such a long and complex password!?!Īpple’s method of saving passwords is excellent. And this Master Password should obviously be strong enough so no one can guess it, having upper/lower case letters, numbers, non-alphanumeric characters, etc. Aside from having to pay a monthly subscription fee, the requirement of all these third party password managers is to create and remember a Master Password which, if you forget, you lose all your passwords. I would rather have big trustworthy companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon keep my passwords and other sensitive info than all these little companies that might go out of business any day. The only option left is using a third party password manager, and to me that is that worst option. But unfortunately there’s no way to manually add passwords which I must do. The good thing is that it requires authentication to view those passwords. All passwords saved in IE/Edge get saved there, under Web Credentials. There is something called Credential Manager in Control Panel. I could also save passwords in Windows and access passwords from there. I could use Microsoft Edge on Android and save my passwords in my Microsoft Account, but Edge has all the same problems as with Google/Chrome when it comes to passwords. There is no extra authentication step to view all the passwords. And two, all passwords are fully exposed in Chrome when logged in with a Google account. There are 100 passwords and it would be a pain to visit each website and log in just to have Chrome save that password. One, there is no way to manually add new passwords in Google Account. So I must move my passwords elsewhere if I plan to no longer use an iPhone.įor Android, one obvious choice is storing passwords in the Google Account. There’s no way I can access those passwords online – I have to have an Apple device to access them. ![]() I’m planning to switch from iPhone to Android but I don’t know what to do with my 100 passwords saved on my iPhone. ![]()
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